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The Rabbit Hunter: A novel

Lars Kepler · Knopf
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

The latest internationally best-selling installment in the Joona Linna series sees him temporarily called back to the police force to solve a series of bizarre and increasingly horrifying murders.Detective Joona Linna is finishing out a sentence at Kumla prison for assaulting an officer...
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Mr. Nobody: A Novel

Catherine Steadman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A psychiatrist treating a man with no identity or memory discovers that her patient knows far more about her past than his own in a gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water.

Who is Mr. Nobody?

When...
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Memories of the Future

Siri Hustvedt · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World, Memories of the Future tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession...
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The Most Fun We Ever Had: A Novel

Claire Lombardo · Doubleday
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

"A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory."
--Madeline Miller

A dazzling, multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried...
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Normal People: A Novel

Sally Rooney · Hogarth
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football...
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Outside Looking In: A Novel

T.C. Boyle · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A provocative new novel from bestselling author T.C. Boyle exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-altering possibilities

In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects...

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The Paper Wasp

Lauren Acampora · Grove Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riveting knife-edge story of two women's dark friendship of twisted ambition set against the backdrop of contemporary Hollywood



In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary...

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The Red Daughter: A Novel

John Burnham Schwartz · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s: The Red Daughter is a sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.

In one of the most...
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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

Felicity McLean · Algonquin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The Virgin Suicides meets Picnic at Hanging Rock in this stunning international debut.

"A smart, classy thriller that blazes with the heat of Australia and slowly reveals its many layers." - Fiona Mozley, author of Man Booker Prize finalist Elmet
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Waiting for Bojangles

Olivier Bourdeaut · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

The runaway international bestseller - shortlisted for one of France's highest literary prizes - a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways.

A young boy lives with...
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